what my government's done for me lately
my dinner... spring greens, sugar snap peas and dried cranberries with raspberry vinaigrette; a a three-seed flatbread cracker with a few slices of garlic-herb cheese; fresh strawberries; spiced tea. i feel like such a heathen right now. it's all thanks to finally receiving my food stamps, which are back-dated from December when i applied. so i have december, january, february, march, and april stamps to get through, more than I'll ever use... and my epic two-hour trip to the Wedge yesterday. i could literally live in that store and not see all of it, methinks. i wanted to take pictures, the spring produce was so colorful and it smelled so fresh. i pretty much had a produce-gasm. i got the sweetest tiniest cherry tomatoes, wild asparagus which i've never tried, a huge bulb of fennel, baby artichokes, red red ruby chard, and about a million things more besides. and i still have like four hundred dollars in stamps left. i hate to waste it, but i have no idea what to do with them.
of course since i have to go back to work tomorrow after my spring break, I'm getting the beginnings of my annual spring cold from hell. tomorrow is a planning day with a bunch ofm eetings, so i might try to go in late if i'm still feeling sniffly and sore throaty.
it's getting warmer and thus I am not feeling as hermity. with the extra money I'm not spending on groceries, i'd really like to get a YWCA membership. every time I go with Molly using her guest passes i feel great afterwords, and since she and a few other of my friends are really pushing themselves to get in shape, i figure i should get off my lazy ass and follow their example.
hmmm.. what else? tuesday starts the last quarter of this school year. i can hardly believe it. we have summer school though, so i'll most likely be spending the summer working a lot. which is good for my hours and bad for my wanderlust. It's been nearly a year since i've traveled outside the U.S. and i'm getting kinda... itchy for some globetrotting. however, since i can barely afford to even go to a Twins game right now, traveling is pretty much out of the picture.
well that's all for tonight. back to my dinner of deliciousness.
of course since i have to go back to work tomorrow after my spring break, I'm getting the beginnings of my annual spring cold from hell. tomorrow is a planning day with a bunch ofm eetings, so i might try to go in late if i'm still feeling sniffly and sore throaty.
it's getting warmer and thus I am not feeling as hermity. with the extra money I'm not spending on groceries, i'd really like to get a YWCA membership. every time I go with Molly using her guest passes i feel great afterwords, and since she and a few other of my friends are really pushing themselves to get in shape, i figure i should get off my lazy ass and follow their example.
hmmm.. what else? tuesday starts the last quarter of this school year. i can hardly believe it. we have summer school though, so i'll most likely be spending the summer working a lot. which is good for my hours and bad for my wanderlust. It's been nearly a year since i've traveled outside the U.S. and i'm getting kinda... itchy for some globetrotting. however, since i can barely afford to even go to a Twins game right now, traveling is pretty much out of the picture.
well that's all for tonight. back to my dinner of deliciousness.